Rhonda Anderson > wrote in
.5:

> Aah, now I can see why you would expect someone in the US to know
> that was a pound sign. Here, the automated phone systems say
> "followed by the hash key". That's the only name I've ever heard
> that key/symbol called by.
>
> Rhonda Anderson
> Cranebrook, NSW, Australia
>
>

In America the # (Octothorpe) is the shift 3 key combo. In the UK the
shift 3 key combo is the stylized L pound symbol (£). Octothorpe isn't a
comfortable or well known word, hence the name pound sign was invented.
Then somebody said " pound sign ? I guess it's short for lb".

(I made the stuff in the last sentence up.)

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